This plugin gives a much needed boost to the color picker in WordPress. Not only do you have a lot more colors to choose from, you can also specify custom colors that are then available to you from then on.

This plugin highlights different types of posts in your admin area in different colors.

So, for example, a post in the draft stage will have one color as its background, a “pending review” post will have another color as its background, a published post will yet another color as its background, etc.

This is handy if you have lots of different posts in different stages and you need to see at a glance what’s going on with that situation.

You do have the ability to define the different colors for the different types of posts, so that’s a nice feature.

Joe,
Thanks for posting this. I never thought about color coding the post list, but the plugin will make it much easier to sort through. Being able to make the widgets in different colors can help them get more attention.
Not sure about the Admin Formatter plugin, but will give it a try to see if it works with my theme.